Carl Crawford (0-for-7 with four strikeouts in the first two games) is bumped down to seventh in today's lineup and Adrian Gonzalez is up in the #3 spot. Jed Lowrie and Darnell McDonald are also in the starting lineup.

The Red Sox have not started a season 0-3 since 1996, when they lost their first five games (and were 2-12 and 3-15 in late April).

The Sox were 0-for-11 with RATS last night (4-for-23 in the two games). Since the start of the 2009 season, Boston has won only six of 21 games against the Rangers.

Really the pitching is the only problem. The hitting has been great. Our pitchers start slow. That I think is by design. These games can hurt us in a tie breaker down the road but come on we will slaughter most teams going forward and also I must point out, Texas was in the WS last year. This isn't the Royals on a hot streak. I can't wait to see how we destroy the Tigers too.

Cafardo: "There’s the school of thought that it’s too early to make Negative Nelly comments after two dreadful losses ..."

Accent on "thought", since thinking people will understand that there is 98.8% of the season left to play.

Nick: "The Sox certainly have a roster capable of rattling off 10 straight wins at the drop of a hat. ... Or at least we think they can. In these distressful times, it’s always interesting to catch the mood of Red Sox fans on Twitter."

No, it's not. Though perhaps it's more interesting than skimming through Cafardo's crap -- and seeing him copy and paste bullshit from Twitter to pad out his column.

Bozo:"The sky is falling on the Red Sox at this hour. But try to remember it's only two games. The season is not yet over ... All you nattering nabos of negativity need to calm down and remember the good stuff."

That is getting really annoying. Bad enough when teams do fireworks after a HR, but this is really annoying - especially in G1 when they were still down 2-1 after the homer. Kinda insulting the intelligence of the fans too, like nothing else that happens has any meaning in the game, just home runs.